Re: Bug#164857: apt: not upgrading allthough version number is bigger

[Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
>
> > tpo2:~# apt-show-versions dummypkg
> > dummypkg 020902154609 installed: No available version in archive
>
> apt and older versions of dpkg require that any consecutive string of
> digits be storable in an 'unsigned long'. You should stick some dots in
> there or something.

Yup, that work-around does it, thanks.
*t

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